DadMode: Parenting, Gaming, Streaming, Life
"DadMode" is a podcast where two gaming-loving dads discuss everything from live streaming to fatherhood in a humorous and relatable way. Join Josh aka Moorph and Bearded Nova as they share gaming adventures and parenting anecdotes, offering a unique blend of entertainment and insight for fellow gamers with kids.
DadMode: Parenting, Gaming, Streaming, Life
Tiktok streaming - n0va joins a creators group
Can TikTok's innovative creator agencies really give streamers a leg up without taking a cut from their earnings? Join us as we explore this and compare the unique streaming landscapes of TikTok and Twitch. We'll share firsthand experiences from my involvement with TikTok's Minecraft and Fortnite campaigns, shedding light on the tangible benefits of agency support. You'll also hear about the technical hurdles faced on Twitch and our excitement over new gaming gear like foot pedals and a 3D-printed flight stick, which promise to elevate the Star Citizen experience. Plus, upcoming enhancements with an AI-featured camera for desk views and unboxings are on the horizon.
Next, we venture into the contentious realm of adult content platforms, focusing on the unmoderated chaos of the streaming platform Kick. The consequences of lax moderation, including the troubling presence of racism, are analyzed alongside the platform's laissez-faire approach. We also touch on Twitch's evolving rules around content like cleavage and their filter systems designed to give users more control. Our experiences with Steam's adult content filter reveal a surprisingly high number of explicit games, sparking a conversation about the potential embarrassment of having such titles visible in one's library.
Lastly, we bring a personal touch with stories about parenting and the quirks of kids' gaming habits. From the unexpected addition of Steam wallet funds to the pitfalls of third-party game purchases, we share our experiences navigating these challenges. Our kids' love for Fortnite and the influence of YouTube creators like DanTDM come to the forefront, along with the amusing reality of children narrating their gameplay. We discuss the transition from casual to more demanding games, setting up a basic gaming PC for a child, and the surprisingly robust performance of older hardware like the NVIDIA 750 Ti. Through these stories, you'll gain insight into how gaming shapes social dynamics among young gamers and the pride parents feel in their children's gaming achievements.
Josh aka Bearded_Nova
I'm from Australia and am what you would call a father who games. I have 5 kids so not as much time to game as I used to. But I still game and stream when I can. So come join me on Twitch in chat as we chill out.
Business Inquiries: Bearded-n0va@aussiebb.com.au
Josh aka Moorph
I'm a US-based husband and father of two boys. I work full-time and have been a content creator since 2000. I'm a YouTube partner, Twitch and LiveSpace streamer who founded a content creation coaching company called Elev8d Media Group (elev8d.media). I'm a blogger, streamer, podcaster, and video-er(?).
Business Inquiries: josh@elev8d.media
turning off normal human male mode. Switching to dad mode. Welcome in to dad mode with your hosts bearded nova and morph all right.
Speaker 2:So, uh, I know you have been streamed for a while on twitch. You were telling me that you've been playing around with tikt stream, one of them more bearded, fantastic.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I'm part of this creators club credit credit agency gauge agency. Um, I got to do a Minecraft stream, which also they, these guys, kind of help push the stream, make it a little bit more. Their idea is to make. They don't make money off anything I earned, tiktok gets give them money. So how agencies work is TikTok pays agencies for creators earning more. So it's like, instead of Twitch getting a cut, so you know, say it's a triangle you, tiktok agency it's just you and TikTok that are. You know TikTok's taking their cut, but then TikTok's getting some of that cut and giving it to the agency. So the agency is not getting anything of yours. You're just giving it to tiktok and then tiktok's giving a bit to the agency. So the agency's job is to try and push you and make sure you're earning more, so tiktok earns more, so they earn more. Um, right, which is a good, it's a good idea yeah, because they're working.
Speaker 2:Someone's actually trying to help you grow. Yeah, on Twitch, tiktok, whatever, you're literally just on your own and they say it's up to you how you do Exactly.
Speaker 3:And so you know, I'm going to jump over to the Discord at the moment, just so I can read, because there's, to be honest, I'm not going to lie, there's some people that just I'm looking at, going, reading reading comments or how to things. What the hell you? You're too new to this game to be trying, uh, trying all this shit, basically, um, so where are we going here? Good, agency update, maybe campaigns, but I'm warning, uh. So, yeah, I got Agency updates, maybe Campaigns, got a warning. So, yeah, I got the Minecraft one. I'm doing that last for a month, Then, moving from next month, which is the 16th. So Minecraft went from, I think, the 16th of May to the 15th of June. It's going Yep. And then from the 16th of June, they're doing a Fortnite celebration on TikTok. Very nice, we've created drops and banners and the rest of it. So I'm going to go into that because I actually don't mind. I've played minecraft for a little bit, I don't mind that.
Speaker 3:So yeah I'm liking the fact that they're getting these kind of like hey, if you can play this game, we'll help you more at the moment, yeah, and, and it's not that I have to play the game for the uh, it's not that I have to play this game for the whole month, it's just I need to play it at the start, if that makes sense. So from now. I haven't streamed since doing the take it on the minecraft one, but if I'm to go live on tiktok, I need to stream minecraft first, otherwise, otherwise it'll bump me out of that push list. So I've got to make sure minecraft's my first game. Once I've streamed minecraft, I'm set for the month. I can jump into my other games and do whatever. Obviously minecraft I'll get more um. But just accepting to do minecraft I've actually picked up followers.
Speaker 3:I haven't posted any content. I haven't posted any content. It's just that the push saying hey, these are the creators that are playing minecraft. People have just gone. Cool, I'll save him. I'll add him for when he does play minecraft. So it's really cool and like yeah, I think it'd be a good thing.
Speaker 3:It actually interests me more than twitch. That's all like twitch. I haven't managed to successfully stay live on kept crashing. Um, that was on my end, though, so, yeah, problem is, I really want, I really want to play on twitch because I really want to play star citizen. I've just gotten back to star citizen all of a sudden. I'm really bad. They're like a couple of friends have started playing it and they've never played it before, and I'm like I've got a big fuck off ship that can fit multiple people and I've never had multiple people to play this game with. I'm back. Um, yeah, you know I got the stream deck, so I've got foot pedals now for flying spaceships. I've I've been 3d printing stuff for my flight stick, for that for games set. I just I still haven't worked out the time to stream but yeah, so you're good to go.
Speaker 3:You just a little technical issues lately, so yeah, I got that new camera coming from knackers, so that thing is going to be. I don't even know how, what I'm going to do in it. Like I know I need to do something. I am contemplating putting it on top of this monitor, the vertical one here, even though it's very similar, like just off center, but but apparently it can do a desk view and like use ai to square up my desk. So if I wanted to do so, yeah, so I can set up a view on my desk and it'll just do like a top down view. And then, oh, you know like.
Speaker 2:You know, like how um like unboxing kind of stuff, right yeah, like unboxing stuff.
Speaker 3:But you know, uh like adobe scan but you probably use that app before I work how you can take a document not straight level and it squares it up. I believe the camera can do that type of trick where it does a perspective twist to make it look like it's looking top-down, but it's really an angle.
Speaker 2:I'm not surprised, since what Is it NVIDIA that has the technology to make it look like you're looking at the fucking camera when you're not?
Speaker 3:Yes, oh well. Apparently the OBSPOT actually has a beauty filters built into it too, so you can adjust your body I need that yeah, you could. You could make yourself look bigger, small, you know yeah, I have a.
Speaker 2:I have a face for radio, so I could use that beauty filter. But uh, hey, you don't need to laugh that much no, I don't.
Speaker 3:I don't, but talking about lives, because I gifted you a game you did Last time I saw you live Because, as Dan would put it, our previous guest, dan would put it, your assistant kept talking about a particular game.
Speaker 2:I didn't say that I did not call Goulet my assistant, because she'll murder me.
Speaker 3:So she was talking about a particular game and then I went, yeah, that game's cool. But then I thought you know what? That's a bit too hard for you, I'm sure, possibly.
Speaker 3:Um, there's a lot of things are too hard. There's a lot going on in that stream. Let's let's bring it down to simple. So I brought a four pack of content. Well, I wasn't actually even a four pack, I think I just had brought four copies and sent it out individually. To be honest, I think it was cheap enough. But I think there's four players. So I was like I'm just going to buy four people this game and then see what happens. Yeah, Um, there you go, you got a copy. Average has actually played the game. I sent him a. He's had a crack at the game with some people in his community. He's saying it's pretty cool. Gulet didn't know about the game, but now she's seen it she actually is excited. I didn't know about it either. I've seen clips. That's all what I saw. But I thought it's not that hard. You're just holding a camera and looking at each other.
Speaker 2:So that'll be a fun one if we get the four of us, like you were saying, on Twitter, get the four of us on on, uh, on twitch or whatever. Yeah, playing the game. We've had fun. Even though gulet has potato internet, you know, I think she could still handle it that's what you get in opinion you're but yeah you know that's.
Speaker 3:I guess that's it because we said I think I'd say we'll try and do that on a friday, saturday, basically, when we're doing this yeah, yep, take a night off this and then do one of those and I think that would be a great time for us to test what the water's like for live streaming at that time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean, I used to do Friday nights. I used to do Friday nights on Twitch and there's a lot of streamers. Yes, I felt like I didn't do as well on Friday nights because there were so many other options, but you know, I still had a little niche, a little group of people that came through, so I think that we could find a home.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think we could find a home for it, especially after Daniel's talk about we talked more about doing a live thing for this. Yeah, yeah, stage sorry.
Speaker 2:I want to hear from people who listen to this. Would you guys be now? We? We post uh some some full-length video episodes on our youtube channel, which is a dad mode podcast. It's dad mode podcast everywhere. Um, would you guys be interested in seeing a live stream? Let Let us know, however you feel like reaching out to us um Twitter, youtube, whatever. Um pigeon, pigeon, yeah, uh, tick tock, anything. Uh, you know smoke signals, whatever you want. Just let us know if you guys would be interested in um checking out a live stream seeing us like on Twitch.
Speaker 3:So yeah, there's that going on In the sense of that, because one of the topics we had with Dan was playing games as dad mode with a bunch of dads and just doing that as a casual sense. Two things One thing I would really like to try is multiple streams for the event.
Speaker 2:Okay, so can we each broadcast.
Speaker 3:Yep, yep, yep. Which then brings on the second part of let's try twitch's new feature. That not like we've been out since then. I want to try their multi-stream feature like their proper multi-stream feature, not their. Let's just put, you know, a couple of discord bubble heads into a scene. I mean sharing game. You know they've. They've. Yeah, it's been a twitch partner thing for so long that twitch partners could only do it with twitch partners and even then, not many people did it. It's finally available to the masses.
Speaker 2:I actually want to try this thing I think that sounds like a great idea.
Speaker 3:I'm down for that and just it, just absolutely I'm just so surprised no one's using more of it yeah, I'm, I'm definitely down to try that out yeah, so have you been on twitter lately talking about streaming stuff?
Speaker 2:I um, I don't go on. I don't, I just do whatever on twitter right now, like I don't focus on the streaming space. I saw something from our mutual friend, typhlo ren, where he was asking streamer twitter if they're okay. I wasn't sure what he was talking about because I I haven't been following it as closely I mean you've been blocking a lot.
Speaker 3:I didn't want to ask what's going on, just in general, just kick this yeah, but I don't think we spoke about kick. If we did, it was a very long time ago. We spoke about kick on this podcast A long time ago. Yeah, exactly, but a long ago. Yeah, exactly, but apparently there's people rethinking the platform as a whole because of racism remarks someone's being racist it's been like that, since they freaking started exactly.
Speaker 3:Terrible platform exactly that's about that I laughed at. That's the part that I laughed at. I think even their community manager was like I can't work for a business like this. I've had to rethink about how I feel. I'm like you knew what you were doing when you signed up for this shit. How does no one know?
Speaker 2:this. I don't relish saying I told you so, but like, come on, it's an awful. And when I say awful I don't mean technology-wise. Technology-wise, it works. Right, it works. It's not as feature-rich as Twitch, but it works. But they famously don't want moderation, they don't want a lot of rules, they want you to do whatever they want. And now what they did? Is they fafo? Yes, they scoot around and they found out. Yes, you know yes, and it's.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna bring up pick now.
Speaker 2:I'm just making sure I'm mute my browser you gotta put, you gotta go to incognito mode. You don't want that kind of stuff on your browser yeah, but you know it's that bad.
Speaker 3:I don't even know what website was. Apparently is to kickcom. All right, let's just see. Is someone loading into this again, because this is my favorite past. I'm just clicking on, uh, load, and seeing this is this? You know what? This is surprising? Um, no, oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. I've got one which looks like more of an irl stream at a cosplay event. I'm just going to double check by clicking on it.
Speaker 2:It is, unless you're telling me it's like an adult movie expo or something.
Speaker 3:It possibly is because, at the moment, the camera's focused on a girl's butt. Oh, that sounds like kick. That sounds like kick.
Speaker 2:Or an Amaranth stream, one or the other.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it kind of did. But you know, compared to what it normally is, it's actually clean. I'm disappointed, actually. Right now I was clicking on this for smart and I ended up getting a very clean homepage.
Speaker 2:I remember when they first started and I was streaming on Twitch, I'm like, hey, let's go look at kick, and it was so bad I couldn't actually share my screen because it was just like porn.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was like okay, no, uh, yeah, I can't show this on twitch I believe, I believe I believe twitch has gone that way, though instead nowadays have they. Yeah, because they've kind of like relaxed on a lot of the, on a lot of the rulings more and more over time about you know what's what's good, what they can do. You know cleavage is back in type of thing also, I can wear something low-cut now yeah, you can, you can.
Speaker 3:Uh, I think, I think the rule, the only rule around the nips uh, males are allowed, but females ain't, or something like that you know, could possibly be wrong, they're the same thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I could possibly wrong, um, but they've actually allowed a filter so you can actually just filter your twitch. So if you don't want hot tub streams, you can actually just filter to never to never. It's like turning the filter off in steam. Okay, you shouldn't do it, right? Um, honestly, you shouldn't. You shouldn't do it because you realize how, how disgusting gamers are, to be honest, but really, it's.
Speaker 2:And speaking of disgusting, you also shouldn't check out our tiktok or youtube shorts, because you guys didn't. I don't know if you know this. Nova and I, we record these topless and unless you're into man nips, you know, don't go check out our stuff. Yeah, don't don't. At DadModePodcast on YouTube and on TikTok Actually.
Speaker 3:I'm going to, because I brought up the smut of turning off a filter. I actually did turn off the adult filter, the child filter on my Steam. It's great. Great because when you you know steam, you've got that. You got that list of, like, new and trending what's selling and stuff. When, when you turn off the filter and I can't remember exactly where the filter is, theme is basically porn hub, the best way to put it right um, I I didn't know that either until I did the same thing the other day.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh my god, there's a lot of dirty freaking games, oh shit lights, shit lights um new and trending.
Speaker 3:Right now top of the list a game called sex, please yeah, um, and if you're under 18 listening to this, stop don't go to just they'll tell your dad or your mom, though, but you know, because they might be interested in well, you know the thing, the thing that's always got me interested in these, uh, in these games on there is like I wonder, if the people own them, do they actually have friends?
Speaker 2:because you know, steam actually shows what you're playing oh my god, how embarrassing yeah yeah, like oh wait, is is nova playing a game called booty clapper seven, like what exactly? What's going on?
Speaker 3:that's exactly it. You just sit in there, it's like, and then and then. The next thing you know you it's then showing how many hours you put into a game. Next thing you know someone's someone's sitting there in lost academy with fucking 20 000. You know hours in the last two years yeah, yeah, that's, that's hilarious.
Speaker 2:You know what you would?
Speaker 3:what are you talking about? Looking?
Speaker 2:at you. Guys got to get like a second login or something if you get those games what are you talking about?
Speaker 3:um? Why do I?
Speaker 2:have 32 dollars in my steam wallet, did I return a game?
Speaker 3:did you.
Speaker 2:That's cool I didn't know, I had money in there I never have my steam wallet.
Speaker 3:I don't know why I did.
Speaker 2:I don't ever, I've never, I don't think I've ever asked for a refund.
Speaker 3:Maybe something got refunded for me I once had a game taken away from me. Really, yeah, I brought it?
Speaker 2:did your wife find out you're on booty clapper 7?
Speaker 3:yeah, exactly no, I was. I was buying, I brought a game off third-party website and it all looked legitimate like a normal CD key website back in the day, yeah, but obviously it wasn't because, yeah, probably about two months later, steam just removed the the game from my library because apparently the cd key wasn't authentic. It was like stolen. Oh yeah, they just.
Speaker 2:They crack onto you for that shit yeah, I did not know they did that. Um, so I think did I tell you that, like my, my son has got you were talking about fortnite earlier. He is. My son has got. You were talking about Fortnite earlier. He is all about Fortnite right now.
Speaker 3:He's hot into it.
Speaker 2:That's his game. He's not on TikTok. He's only 12, so I'm not letting him on some of the social media. Yet we're talking about streaming. I think he's a natural born streamer. He just talks incessantly when he's playing. This is a 12 year old it's strange it's strange listening.
Speaker 2:This is your 12 year old yeah, my 12 year old, um, and I have to. I'm like, oh, you're playing with a group is like, no, it's just me. I'm like, oh, you're just talking, like I've never been good at just narrating games when I'm talking. But he is, he's entered, he's it's weird, but he's entertaining. And I'm like, man, when, when you hit 13 bud, I might let you go on like a moderated stream with me, my son, because I think I think you could be kind of interesting my son is the same same age, so you know he's a year old, I think.
Speaker 3:Uh well, no, he's 13 yeah, my boy's 13 october. Yeah, it's 13 next month, he's the same. I think it's a generation thing of watching youtube, because your son watches youtube a little bit, I think it's because watching watch. You're watching creators. I don't know who your son watches, but like my son, he grew up at a younger age watching uh dan tdm, because he used to talk about him what dan tdm.
Speaker 3:He's he's kind of like a pewdiepieie-ish European. Played Fortnite, minecraft type, especially around what the kids really like type of games. He's an entertaining guy. He's a nice guy. He's not swearing Like. He's one of those creators you could actually like. I looked at at time and I'm like, oh yeah, that's cool. He's more that a little bit loud at time, but fun, still fun for the kids and I think watching gameplays from him on youtube over time, that's just. It's just embedded into how they they need to do that while they're gaming. Because, yeah, I hate it, I gotta close his door like shut up, boy. You can't. I don't need to hear every moment that's happening in the game, like yes, bearded he, we, he plays in the living room.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like it's an open floor and like it's. I'm like we always told me you're never getting, you're not getting tv in your room till like you're 16 or whatever. I'm like I kind of want to do it now because I can't take it. Yes, it's so, like I said, it's entertaining, but as a parent it's obnoxious. Yes, right, it's. Yes, it's obnoxious. Uh, and I really I want to put him in his room because I can't stand it.
Speaker 3:I can't, I can't take it yeah, no, I, I 100, get that, understand that and agree with that. Yes, actually I actually built another computer the other day for one of my daughters, because she's down there in the dark you can't really see it, but, um, I just had an old dell optiplex, one of those office computers. But she's not a gamer, she's, she's. She's never really been a gamer. The most she likes doing is playing a little bit of roblox. But she was interested in the sims. Okay, so you don't need really much hardware to run the sims. It doesn't have to be graphically mind-blowing fantastic. She just wanted, wanted a game that could play the Sims because she played it at a friend's house. So I just set up this basic $200 computer at the time for her yeah, 100 US, just an old i7. No graphics card or anything, and it's been fine for her.
Speaker 3:Well, I think it was about three weeks ago. Four weeks ago she came back from another friend's house and she goes. So I'm putting, can I put fortnite on my computer? I'm like, yeah, okay, so she's done it. And I'm like, hold on, and I've gone in there to try and set up graphically wise just so it runs like smooth. You know, I mean because I got to drop the, the resolution and stuff like that. I gotta do a little bit of tricks that I knew she wouldn't need to make it happen. Um, because she's like, yeah, I like playing with mouse and keyboard. I'm like, whoa, this is not normal for a child. Most children nowadays want a controller.
Speaker 3:Um, yeah, while trying to set that up, because she was trying to launch fortnite through the xbox app on the pc, so it ran through the. I don't ask me. I don't really still don't get how she did. Anyway, it all fucked up the thing. The thing wasn't launching. I couldn't get it to launch.
Speaker 3:I was confusing my head in the process. I'm like you know what? She needs? Some dedicated graphics card for some degree, yeah, but then I'm online looking to see what I can find. Yeah, that would fit in one of those computers. Couldn't really find.
Speaker 3:I ended up finding something locally. It wasn't going to fit in that case, so then I had to find like, move everything from that computer to a bigger case so I could fit this one graphics card in. Get all that, get home, start pulling it apart, realize the power supply won't actually power the graphics card that I got, so I actually need to use another power supply that I actually had in the cupboard, which is fine. I'm like that's cool, I've got a power supply that'll work. I'll just pull that out, put that in turns out, because it's a dell and it's a workstation. It's that tiny form. They have special plugs on the motherboard, so a normal power supply won't actually fucking suited. So now, so now I've got all these computers and different pieces, so then I have to go out and buy another motherboard and another cpu.
Speaker 3:And it came in another fucking tower so you ended up with a pre-built basically just so I could put this power supply in that I had because it came without one, just so I could put this graphics card in that, the other one. Basically, I brought a whole other computer, pulled that thing apart, bought a whole new computer, put it all into it into another case and I took the hard drive out of it. That's all I did, as I took a hard drive out of one computer and put it in the other. In the end, if someone had told me that I could have saved so much fucking time I just kicked around for probably three days you see what dads do.
Speaker 3:This is what we do to be honest, it's really good. I I'm really surprised your kid was just playing Minecraft. I'll put it out there. Get yourself an old NVIDIA 750 Ti. They're a cheap graphics card. You can pick them up for like $10. And I know it sounds old this is fucking Where's Smash. Listen to this shit. I'm going to tag Smash in this clip when I put it up on tiktok 750 ti, even though it is from 2013, 2014.
Speaker 3:I want to say yeah the architecture for the card is actually a 900 series, so it's not that old. It's still actually getting support for nvidia in its drivers. None of the other like a 780, ti-end, 700 series cards. None of them are supported anymore, but a 750 still is, because it's the architecture and now that you've got the likes of AMD's FSR, which is like DLSS for NVIDIA but for AMD, it works on a 750 as well, so you can play. This old video card with this old fucking cpu is playing fortnite at 1080p, medium to high, at about 65 frames per second. It's smooth. It's running bodily smooth. I'm like I walked away going. I'm impressed with myself, like I'm nailed it. I nailed this shit. I walked down like, yep, I'm good, I've done this. Uh, how's it going? For I don't know. You asked me how a gameplay is going. I don't know. Right, I didn't want to crush it.
Speaker 3:She'll be like yeah, I played once, I don't want to play anymore feel bad though, because I think she just started on the pc and I think it's like a first game, second game, and she came out and told my wife and then, when I've walked down the hallway or someone in my shout out, she's like, oh, did you know your bailey? Uh, she won her first game. Oh yeah, I'm like, oh yeah, cool, didn't have the heart to tell her that the first game is filled with bots, like there's not really the chances of you having a real yeah the, the chances of you having a real player in your first two matches of fortnight is near zero.
Speaker 2:Um yeah, both my boys won their first matches too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to lie. When my son brought me into fortnight to play with him a couple of years ago, like, and I finally cracked and went fine, I'll play more craft fortnight with you. We went in there as a duo and I think I had like 30 kill, 40 kills.
Speaker 2:Oh really.
Speaker 3:In this first game I was mincing everything that moved and I just felt on top of the world and then we won and I'm like that's how you do this shit. And walked out. Then I found out they were basically probably all bots. I felt great At the time. I felt like I'd stomped on like 100 children, just yeah, just rained down terror on everyone. Uh, now I realize, you know, now I play a game and I don't win. I'm still, you know, might get the top 10, um, but I don't win that and I and I'm only averaging like three, four kills a match. I'm like, yes, they really tricked me.
Speaker 2:They really tricked me there yep, they're, they're good, like that. Um, my son, he gets victory royales solo duo, like he gets. He gets them regularly. Now he like he's actually pretty decent at the game, but he's like one of those people like he knows he's good and he won't shut up about how good he is and so, like that, as as me. That just annoys me, you know, but I think people might eat it up. But yeah, it's, he's every now and he's like dad, come play with me. He knows I don't play fortnight, so I do. And then he's just treating me like I'm the kid brother, just stay in the corner and hide, I'll take care of him, like no, I'm the dad here, and then I run out there and get shredded, you know, and he's like jesus dad, what talking about, like that kid flex moment, um, something, and this is going to bring it back like full circle moment almost for us, but me doing this minecraft thing on tiktok.
Speaker 3:So, brought up at the start my nephew I don't know what grade he's in. I want to say he's in grade three or so brief, maybe four this year. Okay, he's just started getting into games because his dad not really cool, like he's never really had technology, ipads, things like that, like no, don't need it that. That type of parent, um, but it's a school, obviously they all play games. So my mum kind of set up a little system at her house for him to play occasionally and now he's plays a bit at home as well and I think my sister brought him a quest 3 for christmas. So he's gotten into minecraft and that, like the other kids are.
Speaker 3:But you know, I don't, I don't know how he goes in that. But you know the schoolyard, the schoolyard talk and it's all about Minecraft nowadays and you got those kids that, like I'm the greatest at Minecraft the moment and he's a small town. So the moment he, uh, I found out about my TikTok stream Minecraft, I was on the phone. I screenshot it, said it to my sister. I'm like boy, tell my nephew, you go to school and go away. My uncle is playing. My uncle's being asked to play minecraft on tiktok for their birthday. There's a picture of like he can just go flex that shit around the you know what I wonder if I could get in on the Fortnite one.
Speaker 2:My kid would probably think that's pretty cool yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like I said, I'll put my name down for the Fortnite one. But the Fortnite, is it an Australia thing? No, no, no, I think it's a month thing for TikTok, just TikTok.
Speaker 2:Oh I might check that out. I think you know, because I like to impress my kids. Yeah, you, I might check that out I think you know because as I like to impress my kids. Yeah, I, you know it's. It's cool.
Speaker 3:Anytime I can get like a cool dad point, I'll take it I love cool dad points, especially like since doing content creation, it's, it's. I feel like I've got that cool dad point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, constantly with yeah yep, um, my, my son, though he gets disappointed because he that I don't I'm not as big as mr beast, you know. He's like how many surprises you have. Because he that I don't I'm not as big as mr beast, you know. He's like how many subscribers you have. I'm like I don't know nine thousand, ten thousand, is it? Mr beast has like 10 million. I'm like cool. Well, what do you want me to say to that? But you know, do better dad do better exactly, do better get good.
Speaker 3:On that note, I reckon we wrap this up here and we'll try and do better on our next episode.
Speaker 2:I can't, I can't promise we will, but we'll try hey, you never know, you never know.
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